How to format your references using the Journal of Cleaner Production citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cleaner Production. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Service, R.F., 2002. Battle to become the next-generation x-ray source. Science 298, 1356–1358.

A journal article with 2 authors

Packer, A., Clay, K., 2000. Soil pathogens and spatial patterns of seedling mortality in a temperate tree. Nature 404, 278–281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Benton, R., Vannice, K.S., Vosshall, L.B., 2007. An essential role for a CD36-related receptor in pheromone detection in Drosophila. Nature 450, 289–293.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mizutani, K.-I., Yoon, K., Dang, L., Tokunaga, A., Gaiano, N., 2007. Differential Notch signalling distinguishes neural stem cells from intermediate progenitors. Nature 449, 351–355.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Pan, G.W., 2003. Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Device Modeling. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Allen, S., 2005. Beginning Relational Data Modeling, Second Edition. ed. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Bressler, S.L., 2007. The Formation of Global Neurocognitive State, in: Perlovsky, L.I., Kozma, R. (Eds.), Neurodynamics of Cognition and Consciousness, Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–72.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of Cleaner Production.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Researchers Record Chimpanzee Mother Caring For Her Disabled Child In The Wild [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-record-chimpanzee-mother-caring-her-disabled-child-wild0/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 2013. Small Business Innovation Research: Data Rights Protections (No. GAO-14-116R). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Morrow, S.T., 2012. Coboundary theorems for collections of random variables with moment conditions (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Brady, L.S., 2015. A Cobbler Is No Longer Barefoot. New York Times ST13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Service, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Packer and Clay, 2000; Service, 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Packer and Clay, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Mizutani et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Cleaner Production
Abbreviation	J. Clean. Prod.
ISSN (print)	0959-6526
Scope	Strategy and Management Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering General Environmental Science